Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [2001-2015] Année : 2001

Temporal fluctuations of waves in weakly nonlinear disordered media

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We consider the multiple scattering of a scalar wave in a disordered medium with a weak nonlinearity of Kerr type. The perturbation theory, developed to calculate the temporal autocorrelation function of scattered wave, fails at short correlation times. A self-consistent calculation shows that for nonlinearities exceeding a certain threshold value, the multiple-scattering speckle pattern becomes unstable and exhibits spontaneous fluctuations even in the absence of scatterer motion. The instability is due to a distributed feedback in the system "coherent wave + nonlinear disordered medium". The feedback is provided by the multiple scattering. The development of instability is independent of the sign of nonlinearity.

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hal-00373425 , version 1 (05-04-2009)

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S. E. Skipetrov. Temporal fluctuations of waves in weakly nonlinear disordered media. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics [2001-2015], 2001, 63, pp.056614. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.63.056614⟩. ⟨hal-00373425⟩
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